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2024/2025 NPFL season: Coaches under spotlight as management frowns at post-match interviews

Posted : 07 May 2025

The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) management has issued a stern warning to coaches who boycott post-match conferences.


In light of this, Match Commissioners have been directed to ensure that all clubs and their coaches fully comply with post-match protocols, which include interviews with journalists.


The Chairman of the NPFL, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, conveyed the directive through the Matchday Situation Room, where league operations interact with Match Commissioners in real time to ensure smooth matchday management.


“It is mandatory for Match Commissioners to ensure that coaches and players appear for post-match interviews with the media,” Elegbeleye stated.


Match Commissioners were further instructed to include in their reports any club or coach that refuses to honour post-match media engagements.


“We expect reports of compliance or otherwise from you, as any defaulting coach will be sanctioned.


“Any coach who fails to attend the post-match interview with the media will be fined, and such a fine must be paid before the next game, or the coach will not be allowed on the bench,” the NPFL Chairman warned.


He emphasized that it has become necessary to ensure full compliance with this provision of the NPFL Rules and Framework following increasing reports from media partners that they are being denied content.


“As the NPFL Board, it is our duty to ensure that stakeholders—especially our media partners—are provided with the platform to showcase the league through the content they generate from our games. This also helps bring the league to fans who consume these contents via television, radio, social media, and print,” Elegbeleye continued.


Some coaches are known to storm off the field in anger when their team loses. The monetary sanction is intended as a deterrent to curb such unsporting conduct.

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